11am at Dublin Unitarian Church

All welcome.

Sermons, childrens’ stories and meditation prayers from all Sunday services are recorded and can be accessed from our website on the Recordings page .

There are also three podcasts on the I-Tunes Music Store with the three sections updated weekly. Search there for “Dublin Unitarian Church”.

Church Clubs & Groups Meeting in June 2018

Film Club
The Film Club meet on the first Wednesday of the month at the Lantern Centre on Synge Street, Dublin 2. At time of going to press, the film hadn’t been decided. Reply and enquire if you are interested in knowing more.

Facilitator – Aubrey Flegg

Book Club
The Book Club meet to discuss a book on the last Wednesday of the month (27th June in this case) in the vestry of the church at 7pm. This month they are reading Blindness by Jose Saramago. All are welcome

Facilitator – Jennifer Flegg

Theatre Club
This correspondent has not been informed of any plans for the near future but experience has taught me that there are always plans hatching in the head of Patrick Rogers who organises theatre trips for this club. If you’d like to join them in the future, make contact with Patrick at email hidden; JavaScript is required and he will be glad to give you more information.

Walking Club
The Walking Club like to go and walk in places around Ireland (mostly near to Dublin) roughly once a month.

Again, I’ve been left out of the loop for future plans but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plans afoot.

If you’d like to be the first to hear about future walks or if you would like to know more, please contact Marcus at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Publications

The church has published a variety of books and other products. Our most recent publication is a first collection of sermons and essays by our current minister Rev. Bridget Spain.

The new book, as well as other books of sermons and childrens stories and greetings cards published by the church are available from the website and we take payment through Paypal.

They have the knack. They get it. They deploy their amazing skill with words and their inate relationship with melody time and time again. The list above does no justice to their deeper album cuts with both The Walls and The Stunning. There’s so many that all we could do was make a playlist which you’ll find below.

Friday 15th & Saturday 16th June
Trilling Trilling and Bloomsday Festival presents
A Concert Performance of excerpts from
Ulysses: An Opera
Music by Eric Sweeney
Words by James Joyce
Adapted by Andrew Basquille
Produced by Andrea Basquille
8pm both nights
Tickets €20/€15 from www.trillingtrilling.com

Yes, Ulysses is “operable”.

We haven’t changed a word so as to be true to the musicality of Joyce’s language..
We set out to give the audience an experience of the epic quality of the book in an original way.

Eric’s bold and dramatic settings complement Joyce’s words beautifully. The interior monologues and the “stream of consciousness” passages lend themselves to work as beautiful and expressive arias. He draws on many of the classical opera, Irish traditional and music hall references in the book so as to create a compelling and challenging work. Joyce’s love of opera is well documented and he regularly attended operas wherever he lived.

The unique environment of the Unitarian Church has inspired the band to perform a very particular set of songs. They plan on performing songs cherry-picked from our back catalogue alongside brand new material. Some of these songs have never been performed live while others were chosen specifically to suit the surroundings of the Church itself. They are planning to perform alongside some special guests who will help the band present a more expansive version of their already distinctive sound. They are excited to expose some very different and underexposed elements of their sound. They hope you can join them there.

Launching his 4th solo CD, an album of songs written or co-written by the pianist / composer / singer / arranger from Dublin who also happens to be the organist at this church, Josh is assembling a 14 piece band to play the carefully constructed music as it was recorded, as well as new arrangements of older songs.